[Ma-linux] Web Page Editors

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:34:21PM -0500, Ellis Pierce wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:55, Chuck Divine wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Anyone out there have experience with WYSIWYG editors?  I currently have
> > Mozilla 1.7.13 on my system.  It came with Suse Linux 10.0.  It doesn't
> > do what I want it to do, since I use both server side includes and style
> > sheets.  I must admit, though, I haven't studied it too extensively
> > since I can code HTML without such an editor.
> >
> 
> For a) simple pages and b) non-pro page developers, I suggest their favorite 
> word processor, and save as html.  This is one of the options with Open 
> Office and probably most "full feature" word processors.
> 
> Minimal learning curve (adding links, and probably more extensive use of 
> tables is about it);  a product that looks pretty much like what they saw on 
> the screen;  and just call up in browser. modify text and save, then refresh 
> browser to fine tune it.


For "most people", this means MS Word, which creates HTML five times
bigger than it should be, and using some MS-only proprietary extensions.
I would AVOID this suggestion like the plague.  No offense intended to
Mr. Pierce.


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